- Contemporary African literature, particularly Anglophone literature and Realism
- Postcolonial Theory and World Literature
- Self-writing and the construction of collective identities through literary production
- Critical Pedagogy, education, and conceptions of literacy in Africa
- Oral culture as part of the educational system, esp. in the digital age
- Discourse Ecologies: textual representations in the public sphere

2021
With Medadi Ssentanda. “Either/Or Literacies: Teacher’s views on the implementation of the Thematic Curriculum in Uganda." Compare: A Journal for Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2021.1995700

2021
"'I am a Creole, and Have Good Scotch Blood': Constructing Commonalities in The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, vol. 19, no. 2, 2021, pp. 281-303. https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2021.0016

2021
“Teacherly Aesthetics: Literature and Literacy in Binyavanga Wainaina’s Works." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 58, no. 1, 2021, pp. 61-75. https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.8353

2021
"’Home is a Place in Time’: Fractals and Chronotopes in the Poetry of Safia Elhillo.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 57, no. 4, 2021, pp. 469-483. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2021.1888150

2021
With Medadi Ssentanda. “’I think it was a trick to fail Eastern’: A multi-level analysis of teachers’ views on the implementation of the SHRP Program in Uganda." International Journal of Educational Development, vol. 80, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102309

2020
Beyond the Single Story of African Realism: Narrative Embedding in Half of a Yellow Sun." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 51, no. 4, 2020, pp. 125-154.https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765974

2019
With Manya Kagan. "The Work of Educational NGOs in Africa from the Perspective of Critical Pedagogy: A Case Study of Teacher Training in Burundi." In International Development in Africa: Between Theory and Practice, edited by Yonatan N. Gez, Reut Barak-Weekes, and Manya Kagan. Jerusalem: Pardes Publishing House, 2019, pp. 119-142 (Hebrew). https://www.pardes.co.il/?id=showbook&catnum=978-1-61838-534-5

2016
"Adichie in Dialogue with Achebe: Balancing Dualities in Half of a Yellow Sun." Research in African Literatures, vol. 47, no .3, 2016, pp. 70-87. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.05

2018-2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2017-2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Glocal International Development Program / Davis Institute for International Relations, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

2016
Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Haifa.
Dissertation title: “"Maybe We Are Not Just Failing": Unknowability in the Self-Writing of African Realism.”

2008
M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Haifa.
Thesis title: "Balancing Dualities into a New World: Tradition and Change in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God."